Lady this worthless gift I send
Obeying your command
Now to my poor request attend
And give with willing hand

You have an aspect passing fair
A form of beauteous guise
A Juno-like majestic air
And peircing, radiant eyes

And you have locks whose jetty light
Is like the ravens wing
And O! when from your forehead bright
Those glossy locks you fling;

How down your shoulders fair they stream
And down your stately neck
How richly with their dusky gleam
Your queen-like form they deck

Now from those ample treasures take
One little sportive ring
And I will keep it for your sake
And oft its praises sing

I'll set it round with orient pearl
Inclosed in case of gold
More I shall prize that single curl
Than precious gems untold

Memmorial though frail yet fair
Of one whose genius bright
Hath glorified our age with glare
Of its unsetting light

And O! if ghastly Death should break
The tie that binds us now
That token unto me shall speak
Of the imperial brow

O'er it gracefully did stray
And bright & burnished shone
Like the vine tendrils wanton play
In times long past & gone.